Bottle-stopper.



PATENTED SEPT. 18, 1 906.

G. KIRKEGAARD.

BOTTLE STOPPER. APPLICATION FILED ROY. 10. 1905.

rut NORRIS PEYERS ca. wummzmn, n. c

UNITED STATES PATENT orrron- BOTTLE-STOPPER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 18, 1906.

Application filed November 10,1906. Serial No. 286,664.

To in whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, Gnone KIRKEGAARD, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of New York, in the borough of Brooklyn and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle-Stoppers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in bottle-stoppers, and has for an object to provide a bottle-stopper of improved construc tion which upon being unfastened may with its fastenings be entirely removed from the bottle and may be again applied to a bottle.

The parts of the stopper are so constructed and organized that their fastening and unfast-ening does not injure them. The stopper herein illustrated has a cap or stopper of suitable construction for closing the mouth of the bottle upon which it is to be employed, and such cap or stopper carries radially-disposed. hooks for engaging the lower and slanting face of the bead or flange at one side of a bottle-mouth and an eccentric cam for engaging such face at the opposite side. The eccentric when turned into engagement with such face will also draw the hooks against it, causing the eccentric and the hooks to ride down the slanting face of the bead, and thereby draw the cap or stopper against the bottlemouth for closing and sealing the same.

In the drawings accompanying and form ing a part of this specification, Figure 1 is an elevation of a portion of a bottle, showing an embodiment of a form of my invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a top plan view thereof. Fig. 3 is a portion of a bottle-neck broken away and the said improvement shown in central section. Fig. 4 is a top plan view showing a different form of hook and eccentric carrying members from that shown in 2. Fig. 5 is a side view of the said member, it being shown as made of sheet metal in these views; and Fig. 6 is a top plan view of a form of lever and cam.

The bottle (designated in a general way by 11) has a neck 12, ending in a mouth 13, having a thickened rim or bead 14, the lower side of which slopes inwardly toward the normal neck, a suitable sloping face for the purpose of the present invention being indicated by 15. The cap or closure comprises a sheet-metal cap portion 20, having a flange 21 for partially overlying the bead on the edge of the mouth, and may contain some suitable packing 2 which may be a disk of cork, the nathe stopper were ture of the packing being controlled to some extent by commercial reasons and by the nature of the contemplated contents of the bottle.

The clamping device (designated by 25) for engaging the face 15 of the bead on the bottle and drawing the cap or stopper into position is located on top of the cap and has a pair of divergent limbs 26, each having a hooked end 27 for engaging said'face. Both hooks are located to engage the face of the same side of the bottlemouth. The limbs 26 in Fig. 2 come together and bend down over the edge of the cap. Such bent-over portion is provided. with a pivot or pintle 29, upon which a lever 80 is mounted. The pivot-hole 31 of the lever is disposed eccentrically to a cam-face 32. When the cap is placed in position on a bottle-mouth and the handle of the lever is moved toward the bottle, the cam will engage the face 15 and draw hooks 27 against such face. Continued movement of the lever and cam will cause the cam and the hooks to ride down the face 15 toward a portion of less diameter and by such movement will draw the cap or stopper against the bottle-mouth. The cam-face may b eso disposed that its longest radius will pass the point of engagement with the face 15 just prior to the lever-handle coming into contact with the bottle-neck. This will tend to move the cam in the closing direction and will bring the lever-handle firmly against the bottle-neck and will prevent accidental unfastening of the stopper. Increased pressure upon the stopper from within the bottle will only strengthen the pressure of the leverhandle toward its closed position. The handle of the lever is shown curved, so that when in the clamped position it will be close to the bottle-neck and out of danger from bending and accidental opening.

In Fig. 2 the member 25 is shown made of wire and in Fig. 4 of sheet metal. It may also be cast or wrought, as will be apparent to those skilled in the art. a

It will be observed that the stopper herein described engages with the overhanging shoulder of the neck of the bottle at three points around the periphery substantially equal distances apart and that all three points are simultaneously engaged and dis engaged by tightening or loosening the engaging device at only one of these points. If held at four points ninety degrees apart, the release at one point would not also release the others, and the stopper could not be easily removed. If it were held at two diametrically-arranged points, the release of one would also release the other, but suflicient pressure could not be brought to bear upon the cap to seal those portions between the two points of engagement. Therefore the provision of a three-point lock with means for locking and unlocking at one point has considerable merit.

Having described my invention, I claim- 1. A bottle-stopper comprising a cap, a clamping member upon said cap and having a pair of hooks on one side of the cap for engaging the bead at the bottle-mouth and at the other side a pivot, and a lever pivoted thereon and having an eccentric cam-face for engaging said bead and drawing the books under the same.

2. A bottle-stopper comprising a closure carrying a hook at one side for engaging the bead at the mouth of a bottle, and a pivot at the opposite side, and a lever pivoted thereonand having an eccentric cam-face for engaging said bead and drawing the closure into position and securing the same.

3. A bottle-stopper comprising a closure having means at one side to engage the bead at a bottle-mouth, a pivot downwardly depending at the other side, and an eccentric cam pivoted thereon for engaging the bead at that side.

4. A bottle-stopper embodying a closure, means carried by one side thereof for engaging the lower sloping face of a bead at the mouth of the bottle, and a lever pivoted atthe opposite side and having an eccentric cam-face for engaging said face of the bead.

5. A bottle-stopper embodying a closure, means carried thereby for engaging the face at the lower side of the bead at a bottlemouth at one side of said month, an eccentric cam for engaging the lower side of said bead at the other side of said mouth, and means for stopping the movements of the cam when in its clamping position, the longest radius of the cam passing its point of engagement with said face prior to the stopping of its rotation. In witness whereof I subscribe my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

GEORG KIRKEGAARD. Witnesses:

WALDO M. OHAPIN, FRANK S. OBER. 

